2.3 Redhat 9 Tkinter IDLE

[RT Lange]

im trying to get idle to work and its really getting frustrating
(and from what ive read on other posts i am not alone)

i think i have to edit the Modules/Setup file but im confused as
to what to uncoment and what to change.

i dont know where my Tcl/Tk libraries are
i think my Tcl/Tk headers are in /usr/include/ (not in
/usr/local/include)
im not sure where my X11 headers are (they werent in /usr/x11r6/include)
Tix/BLT - dont know what those are
im pretty sure my tcl/tk version is 8.3(rpm -qa tcl/tk reveals 8.3.5-88)

and so then i should rebuild and reinstall.
and then "Make sure to enable the _tkinter module as well as the
TKPATH variable definition."(not sure what they mean by enable or
what to do with TKPATH)

2 questions:
Why does this have to be so difficult?
Can anyone provide step by step inststructions?

[Martin v. Löwis]

"RT Lange" <wh*********@yahoo.com> writes:

im trying to get idle to work and its really getting frustrating
(and from what ive read on other posts i am not alone)

i think i have to edit the Modules/Setup file but im confused as
to what to uncoment and what to change.
No, you don't have to edit Modules/Setup. _tkinter is built
automatically if you have the header files installed.
Why does this have to be so difficult?
Because you have limited disk space. As a result of that, Redhat
decides not to install all header files by default. As a result of
that, you have to make an explicit choise as to what header files to
install.
Can anyone provide step by step inststructions?

Sorry, I don't have Redhat 9, so I don't know what the name of the
package is that contains the Tk header files. It probably has the
strings "tcl" and "dev" in their name.

I also don't know whether you installed the system from CD-ROM, DVD,
or via the network, so I can't give precise instructions as to what
media to insert into what slot.

It would be better if you reported the steps you have been doing, and
the problems you see.

Regards,
Martin

[RT Lange]

On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 09:50:26 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

No, you don't have to edit Modules/Setup. _tkinter is built
automatically if you have the header files installed. i have the header files: /usr/include/tcl.h;/usr/include/tk.h
Sorry, I don't have Redhat 9, so I don't know what the name of the
package is that contains the Tk header files. It probably has the
strings "tcl" and "dev" in their name. the package is buried under "Kernel Development"
It would be better if you reported the steps you have been doing, and
the problems you see.

[root@/usr/lib/Python-2.3]# make
case $MAKEFLAGS in \
*-s*) CC='gcc -pthread' LDSHARED='gcc -pthread -shared' OPT='-DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes' ./python -E ./setup.py -q build;; \
*) CC='gcc -pthread' LDSHARED='gcc -pthread -shared' OPT='-DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes' ./python -E ./setup.py build;; \
esac
running build
running build_ext
building '_tkinter' extension
gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -DWITH_APPINIT=1
-I/usr/X11R6/include -I. -I/usr/lib/Python-2.3/./Include -I/usr/local/include
-I/usr/lib/Python-2.3/Include -I/usr/lib/Python-2.3 -c /usr/lib/Python-2.3/Modules/_tkinter.c
-o build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/_tkinter.o
/usr/lib/Python-2.3/Modules/_tkinter.c:96:2: #error "unsupported Tcl configuration"
/usr/lib/Python-2.3/Modules/_tkinter.c: In function `AsObj':
/usr/lib/Python-2.3/Modules/_tkinter.c:947: warning: passing arg 1 of `Tcl_NewUnicodeObj' from
incompatible pointer type
/usr/lib/Python-2.3/Modules/_tkinter.c: In function `FromObj':
/usr/lib/Python-2.3/Modules/_tkinter.c:1073: warning: passing arg 1 of `PyUnicodeUCS2_FromUnicode'
from incompatible pointer type
running build_scripts

[Martin v. Löwis]

"RT Lange" <wh*********@yahoo.com> writes:

/usr/lib/Python-2.3/Modules/_tkinter.c:96:2: #error "unsupported Tcl configuration"

That is the problem. Quoting from README:

Red Hat Linux: Red Hat 9 built Python2.2 in UCS-4 mode and hacked
Tcl to support it. To compile Python2.3 with Tkinter, you will
need to pass --enable-unicode=ucs4 flag to ./configure.

In this case "it is so difficult" because Redhat chose to hack Tcl.

HTH,
Martin